I've just bought Alchemy and was reading about loading multisamples in SFZ format. I also own an editor for my Motif XF that lets me import Soundfonts in SF2 format and convert them to XF patches.

While reading up on these two formats I came across discussions about Extreme Sample Converter which is a Windows-only program that does sample format conversions and autosampling outputs from either VSTs and hardware. I'm a Mac guy but I do have an old WinXP laptop sitting around looking for something to do, so I'm wondering whether this could be useful to me or just a waste of time.

Anyone here using ESC and have comments on it esp. related to autolooping, autosampling and quality of conversions?

I listened to Hatfield and the North at Rainbow. They were very wonderful and they made my heart a prisoner.

I have used ESC for years, it is great. The S-50, 550, Emax and Universe of Sounds libraries I posted here (in sf2, akai program + wav format) were done with that program. Easy to use, and audio quality is the same as original. There are lots of customization options if you want to change things around.

Every old and obscure sample format, disk image, etc, that I have put in, ESC has nicely converted to modern usable files, while preserving correct loop points and other parameters.

For tweaking it has good auto looping, but sometimes you have to adjust it yourself.